Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 20, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-5062

Description

The WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wp_charts' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Wpartisan/Wordpress Charts
cpe:2.3:a:wpartisan:wordpress_charts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=0.7.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.phpnvdProduct
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.phpnvdProduct

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